ARLINGTON — The Arlington Police Department is forwarding charges to the Snohomish County Prosecutor for a 44-year-old Mount Vernon man who was arrested by Bellingham Police on Tuesday, Jan. 21, in connection with a series of burglaries at a number of businesses in Bellingham.

SMOKEY POINT — Although the proceeds are still being counted, organizers of the Stillaguamish Senior Center's first fundraising garage sale on Saturday, Aug. 17, are hopeful that they met their goal of $2,000, to help support the Senior Center's existing programs and maintain its current activities.

State representatives Dan Kristiansen and Elizabeth Scott are inviting local residents to participate in their 39th District telephone town hall meeting on Thursday, Feb. 6. The community conversation will run from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The state lawmakers will take questions and share their thoughts on the 2014 legislative session.

A quick paving project will make nasty bumps and badly cracked pavement a thing of the past and the highway will be smooth and preserved well into the future. And while the next 30 or so days might be noisy and inconvenient, in the end it will be appreciated by both drivers and car suspensions.

MARYSVILLE — A former Marysville Police officer, who was fired by the city after his daughter was accidentally killed by his own personal firearm, appears set to get his old job back, thanks to a recent ruling by an arbitrator.

EVERETT — Arlington filmmaker Jonathan Holbrook is hitting the big time with “Still: The Web Series,” which was not only officially selected for the 2014 L.A. Web Series Festival from March 26-30, but has also been chosen to receive a screening at the Emerald City Comicon from March 28-30.

SMOKEY POINT — US HealthVest’s Certificate of Need application, proposing to establish a 75-bed psychiatric hospital in north Marysville, was approved by the state Department of Health on Jan. 14, clearing the way for an $18.8 million, 60,000-square-foot facility that could open at 15621 Smokey Point Blvd. with an estimated 200 employees as early as 2016.

The Cascade Valley Hospital has had a new neighbor since Monday, Aug. 12, when the newest branch of the Community Health Center of Snohomish County opened its doors at 326 S. Stillaguamish Ave. in Arlington to serve uninsured, under-insured and under-served patients throughout the local area.

MARYSVILLE — Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary's visit to Marysville on Wednesday, Feb. 5, had a slightly sparser attendance than the community gathering in Stanwood on Saturday, Jan. 25, which kicked off his "Coffee with the Sheriff" series of meet-and-greets, but however many members of the public turn out, Trenary wants to ensure that they have access to their sheriff.

Registration for the 20th annual United Way Days of Caring is closing Friday, Sept. 6. Three projects in and around Marysville supporting Pinewood Elementary, the Tulalip Boys & Girls Club and the All-Breed Equine Rez-Q still need volunteers, as do three projects in Arlington supporting the Centennial Trail, the Arlington Library and the Stillaguamish Senior Center. All of the projects are scheduled for Friday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept. 14.

TULALIP — The Tulalip Tribes will be one of three American Indian tribes in the nation to exercise special criminal jurisdiction over certain crimes of domestic and dating violence, regardless of the defendant’s Indian or non-Indian status, under a pilot project authorized by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. The two other tribes are the Umatilla in Oregon and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.

LAKEWOOD — Although Elwood Barker wasn’t born in north Snohomish County, he’s lived literal lifetimes longer in the area than many people who were born here. On Feb. 17, Barker will turn 90 years old — a leap year and his father’s faulty math meant that his birthday was incorrectly recorded as Feb. 15 — and the former North Dakota native has spent nearly seven full decades in the local region, moving here after his two-year tour of duty through Europe in the Army during World War II.

Up to 35 legal marijuana retail stores could open up in Snohomish County according to proposed supplemental rules approved for filing by the Washington State Liquor Control Board on Wednesday, Sept. 4.

As the ballots for the Feb. 11 special election in Snohomish County continue to be counted, the Marysville School District seems poised to receive approval of both of its levies, while the fate of the Lakewood School District’s bond remains up in the air.

Certified hypnotherapist Scott Whippo was welcomed to the community during a ribbon-cutting on Saturday, Aug. 24, by Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert at the office for his new practice, Greyhall Hypnotherapy, which shares space with the Arlington-Smokey Point Chamber of Commerce offices.

ARLINGTON — Detectives with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant at the 8100 block of Wade Road in Arlington on Thursday, Feb. 13, and discovered human remains buried under a concrete slab on the property. The verification that the remains located were human was corroborated by an anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner's Office.